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• The Biden administration signals that its ready to take a cue from the E.U. and start waging war on American farmers.
• A new study from a surprising source shows Republican-leaning states are adding jobs much faster than blue states, and have been for quite a few years.
• A grocery chain in Indiana has a new addition to its staff that can analyze inventory, stock and restock shelves, and tell the bosses in real time which products are selling fast and which aren’t. This new hire is named Tally, and he’s not human. He’s a robot.
• Kohl’s and Harley Davidson join the ranks of woke American corporations.
• And we’ll explain why so many corporations are eager to go woke, even if it means losing billions of dollars.

All these stories and more when the Worldview Financial Report begins, right now!

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Good evening and welcome to the Worldview Financial Report.

We’ve reported extensively about the war on farming that’s been going on overseas, particularly in the Netherlands, which is the most productive farming nation in all of Europe and the world’s second-leading exporter of food after the United States.

Now that war is about to come to America.

John Kerry, who is the Biden regime’s “climate czar,” recently put U.S. farmers on notice that he’s gunning for them. In a recent speech, Kerry insinuated that farmers will have to most likely start producing less, and quite possibly have their lands sequestered, in a bid to meet climate goals set by the United Nations and its putrid 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

Kerry sounded off at a conference called “AIM for Climate Summit” run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on May 10-12th.

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https://twitter.com/ClimateEnvoy/status/1659628928493862927?s=20

Food systems are responsible for 60 percent of global methane emissions, the conference participants said. So, what is their answer? Why of course it’s to produce less food. 

During his keynote speech Kerry warned that climate change should be more appropriately labeled as a “climate crisis.” 

He said:

“A lot of people have no clue that agriculture contributes about 33% of all the emissions of the world. We can’t get to net-zero, we don’t get this job done unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution. So all of us understand here the depths of this mission.”

He further stated that:

“Food systems themselves contribute a significant amount of emissions just in the way in which we do the things we’ve been doing. With a growing population on the planet – we just crossed the threshold of 8 billion fellow citizens around the world – emissions from the food system alone are projected to cause another half a degree of warming by mid-century.”

Kerry says “We need economic, social and policy innovation in order to scale adaptation of these technical solutions and get them into the hands of folks in the fields of small farmers on a worldwide basis. This is the promise of AIM for Climate Summit.

Mitigating methane is the fastest way to reduce warming in the short term. Food and agriculture can contribute to a low-methane future by improving farmer productivity and resilience. We welcome agriculture ministers participating in the implementation of the Global Methane Pledge.”

When John Kerry and the rest of the climate cultists talk about “innovation” for farmers, they’re talking about forced changes that result in lower crop yields and far fewer livestock in their fields. That translates directly into starvation for millions.

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The Washington Post recently ranked all 50 states by their rates of hiring and was, amazingly, struck by the fact that there is much more hiring going on in Republican-leaning states than in blue states. 

Of the 17 fastest-hiring states, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 14 voted for Trump in 2020. The top two Biden-voting states, Georgia and Nevada, should have gone for Trump but didn’t, a whole other story that we could talk about for an entire show, but I digress. The 10 slowest-hiring states all went for Biden.

This led the hopelessly liberal Washington Post to ask, “have we all missed a hidden red-state resurgence?” 

A political split this stark is as rare as a 17-pound potato, the outlet noted.

Many of the fastest-hiring states - Alaska, Wyoming, Montana and Kentucky - have unusually low tax rates and lean on extractive industries such as mining or petroleum. Imagine that: Some states actually believe our natural resources are meant to be used.

We've seen firsthand the economic boom that natural gas and pipelines can bring to struggling regions, but most blue states don’t encourage that. Democrats declared war on oil and gas pipelines several years ago.

But the Post still doesn’t get it, trying to blame the “pandemic” for this disparity and writing off the difference as a matter of Republican policy makers who aren’t concerned about the environment, as if you can’t have economic growth and still respect the environment.

Liberals can never admit they’re wrong.

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The Winepress News reports that Martin’s Supermarkets, a grocery chain located in Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan, are now integrating some of their locations with an autonomous robot that analyzes inventory on shelves and refrigerators with the power of artificial intelligence.

The robot was reportedly a little over 6 feet tall, high enough to scan the refrigerators and shelves.

The grocery store chain has made no announcement on their website about the new integration. But a reporter from The Winepress entered a store and saw it first hand in action.

The robot when not in service returns to a docking port/station to be recharged.

This robot’s name is called “Tally.” According to the sign at the docking port, Tally is touted as the “latest innovation for a better shopping experience.”

A sign at the store read:

“Tally joined the Martin’s team to scan shelves and find out-of-stock products and verify pricing. Tally’s data helps the store team spread more time focusing on our customers, so we provide the best possible shopping experience.”

The robot technology is courtesy of Simbe Robotics. 

Here’s a promotional video Simbe shows to potential clients.

WATCH VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvYN77SGsB0

The company claims that around $448 billion in inventory are lost due to incompetence and stocking errors and deficiencies, leading to empty shelves and out-of-stock products. The Tally robot is designed to eliminate and recoup some of these fees for the stores. Similarly, another $472 billion is purportedly lost “due to lack of performance optimization,” Simbe says. Promotions and sales certainly don’t help the problem and increase the rate of error.

Simbe analyzes all of this and works to flush out these errors. The robot “knows which shelves are most effective, and keeps them stocked with high-margin SKUs,” the company says, adding that the Tally bots can “retailers align with HQ and brand planograms.”

The rollout of Simbe’s robots were accelerated by The Covid War, which ushered in social distancing, under staffing, less physical contact with items, less cash, and people; prompting more businesses to go autonomous and contactless. 

The company called this “The Future of Grocery,” helping stores achieve what they call “retail nirvana” leading to increased profitability.

The company wrote:

“We know this sounds like science-fiction. Thanks to sensors, artificial intelligence and navigational technologies, this science is reality.”

The robot’s computing also links with the store’s digital inventory app that can be accessed on smartphones and iPads, which can alert staff and managers to shortages, out-of-stock items, misplaced products, etcetera.

The robot also alerts staff to the best-selling items and aisles versus others in real-time. via cloud-based technology.

Multiple Tallys can be linked together and monitored all at once.

Best of all, Tally never fails to clock in for work, never gets sick and doesn’t ask for vacation time.

And so you can see the future of retail. The future will bring no retail jobs, or very few.

And we’re allowing unskilled workers to flow across the southern border why? Even the old excuses from Democrats and globalist Republicans, that businesses need more laborers to fill the jobs Americans don’t want to do, no longer hold weight. Almost all of these jobs will be filled by robots within the next 5 to 10 years.

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Retail giant Target managed to lose $10 billion in 10 days, thanks to its idiotic woke policies that turned off a massive slice of the American population.

This is the lowest stock value the company has had in years.

Make no mistake, it would be wrong to say that this has been a “conservative backlash” that led Americans to boycott the retail giant. This is much broader than that. 

It doesn’t require you to be conservative to take umbrage with transgender and Pride-themed clothing items for children.

The New York Post reports, “A week ago Wednesday, Target enjoyed its stock value at $160.96 a share, but following the calls to boycott the Minneapolis-based retailer over its ‘PRIDE’ collection, the value plummeted and closed Friday at $138.93 a share.”

The report continues by stating:

“The more than 22% drop in value for the blue chip stock roughly translates to a $10.1 billion loss in valuation to just $64.2 billion for Target, which has nearly 2,000 stores nationwide. The plummet stands as the retailer’s lowest stock price in nearly three years. The last time the company saw a drop nearly this big came in 2022 after the stocks equalized following an unprecedented surge during the COVID pandemic.”

Target recently pulled items from a company called Abprallen, which included “We Belong Everywhere” messenger bags, “Too Queer For Here” messenger bags, and “Cure Transphobia, Not Trans People” sweatshirts. The company is known to make pro-drug and pro-satan merchandise.

In the description for the items, Target said:

“All items were designed for all bodies, regardless of gender identity and presentation. We added design features to help make the fit customizable for you. Our hope is for all guests to find clothing that makes them feel comfortable and affirmed in their identity. We understand that fit is incredibly important and will continue to evolve and improve on fit needs for the LGBTQIA+ Community.”

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With all the hemorrhaging of cash at Bud Light and now Target, you would think that corporate America would be running as fast as they could away from the left’s obsession with all things LGBTQ. But that’s not happening.

Kohl’s, another major U.S. store brand with a long history in the retail industry, is making the same blunder as Target.

To commemorate “Pride Month” Kohl’s has released new LGBTQIA+ themed apparel for adults, children, and even babies.

The Twitter account End Wokeness made the discovery and tweeted out a photo of a display in Kohl’s that was advertising pride clothing and accessories.

Included in the display was some trans themed baby clothing that contained a dog with a trans flag and children waving LGBTQ flags on them.

Look at this.

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https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1662950559144452096?s=20

Alex Lorusso who goes by the Twitter handle ALX, confirmed the merchandise is in fact from Kohl’s and was able to find the merchandise on Kohl’s website, which you can see here:

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https://twitter.com/alx/status/1662956286764359680?s=20

Kohl’s LGBTQIA+ section reads:

“We are committed to amplifying and affirming the voices
of the LGBTQIA+ community, celebrating the joy that
comes from living authentically and unapologetically not
just this month, but all year long.”

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https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1662959443045146625?s=20

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Harley Davidson, meanwhile, is partnering with Bud Light in a new ad campaign, as Harley tries to help out its fellow woke corporation.

But as Mark Dice explains, Harley Davidson has been woke for quite a while.

WATCH VIDEO (clip first 3:45)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDs4Hfr2aZ0

Unbelievable. Harley Davidson? 

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Some of you might be asking, why are these big major companies so eager to jump in and take sides in the brutal culture wars that have engulfed America? 

Yesterday it was Bud Light. Today it’s Target, Kohl’s, Harley Davidson, but they’re not alone. Nike, Calvin Klein, North Face and even the Los Angeles Dodgers have been going out of their way to please, as Mark Dice called it, the gay mafia. What’s going on? Why can’t they just sell their products and be done with it?

The answer is simple, says Anson Frericks, a co-founder of Strive Asset Management and a former Anheuser-Busch executive. In an article posted at the Daily Mail, Frericks says, “follow the money.”

“As an executive at Anheuser-Busch for more than a decade, I witnessed how the calculus of running a major corporation has been hijacked. It's why I left.  No longer is the pursuit of the almighty dollar – within the bounds of morality and the law – the sole purpose of so many of America's top companies. Today, the country's greatest enterprises have been repurposed into vehicles of social change. Allow me to explain.”

Target and Bud Light are publicly traded companies, which means that, ultimately, it's their investors – a.k.a. Wall Street – that's calling the shots.

Enter BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard, the three largest and most influential financial institutions in U.S. history. They're known as the 'Big Three' on Wall Street, though many Americans have never heard of them.

These three companies control more than $20 trillion in assets, almost none of which is their own. Rather, they manage the money held in everyday American's retirement accounts, pension funds, mutual funds and investment accounts.

Together, the Big Three constitute the largest shareholders of nearly 90% of the largest companies listed on the U.S. stock exchange – the S&P 500.

The Big Three's influence is staggering. But if they were managing this money simply to make more money, there might not be an issue.

They're not.

The Big Three are proponents of what's called “stakeholder capitalism,” which is a belief that businesses should be run not only to increase value to shareholders, but to serve all stakeholders, including government agencies, activists, and non-governmental organizations.

Stakeholder capitalism is distinct from traditional shareholder capitalism, which contends that companies have one responsibility – to generate profits for company shareholders.

The stakeholder movement has been around since the 1970s, but it truly began to gain traction in American investment circles only about five years ago.

2019 was a turning point, Frerick explains.

“That year, the Business Roundtable, which is a group of CEOs from America's largest companies, adopted a new Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation declaring that all companies 'share a fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders' to promote the larger social good.”

188 American CEOs signed on.

So there you have it.

Corporate America is going woke, not because they believe that’s what their customers or that they think it will make them more profits. It’s what the big asset managers want, and right now the Big Three asset managers think sexualizing your child, confusing them as to their gender, and ultimately castrating them is good for society. 

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We previously reported that Bank of America delivered to the FBI private and personal information on its customers without any search warrants or legal process. 

Now the mega-bank is being investigated by the U.S. House for that.

A report from Just the News said GOP members have announced the review of the banking giant after a whistleblower confirmed the company gave private personal information to the FBI – without any legal process.

The FBI, of course, is hardly the epitome of integrity these days after all of its political corruption related to covering up crimes by the Biden and Clinton families while going out of its way to find and prosecute crimes against pro-life and other conservative Americans. 

The report said House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and Kentucky GOP Rep. Thomas Massie wrote to Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, telling him of the investigation and asking for documentation about the bank's actions.

"The lawmakers pointed to the testimony of retired FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst George Hill, who said that the bank 'with no directive from the FBI, data-mined its customer base. And they data-mined a date range of 5 to 7 January [of 2021] any BOA customer who used a BOA product.’”

The whistleblower said the bank especially reviewed anyone who had purchased a firearm during that time frame.

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Metro Atlanta employees of the Lululemon retail outlet say they were fired for calling the police on looters ransacking the store. 

A mob looted a Lululemon store in Peachtree Corners and took off with stolen merchandise.

According to one of the fired employees, the same group of masked burglars had targeted the Lululemon store for weeks as horrified employees watched in silence.

After several robberies, the employees decided to call the police – and they were promptly fired for violating the company’s policy of not interfering with a burglary.

WATCH VIDEO

https://twitter.com/4Mischief/status/1662184534086123520?s=20

The husband of one of the fired employees said in a Facebook post”

“Approximately two weeks ago, my wife was terminated from her job at Lululemon for ‘breaking employee handbook policy’ of not interfering with a burglary. Lululemon representatives held a zoom call a few days after the incident to learn what Jenn knew about the policy. Then, a few days later, they scheduled a follow-up zoom call where they terminated her citing the company’s ‘zero tolerance policy’ in these situations. No warning. No coaching. No additional training. Just. Fired. Georgia being an at-will employment state, employers can do that whenever they wish. That is their right. But it doesn’t make it right. Especially in this situation.” 

That does it for this edition of the Worldview Financial Report. Thanks for tuning in, and for supporting this viewer-supported broadcast.

Until next time, I’m Brannon Howse. Take care.

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